Category politics
So Little Has Changed
So Little Has Changed ~~~~~ It is time to put people over politics, country over capitulation and world over wealth. ~~~~~ (I could write and post something like this every day. It makes me sad.) Today, it was a shooting in Girlroy, CA What are the numbers, does anybody know? Does anybody care how many […]
They Might Grow Up
They Might Grow Up ~~~~~ It is time to put people over politics, country over capitulation and world over wealth. ~~~~~ Emergency, emergency, everybody to clear the streets, The extremists are coming, the extremists are coming. Guns carried openly on the hip or hidden under arm; they will tell you it’s only the bad folks […]
Pale Reflections
Pale Reflections ~~~~~ Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength, Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment ~~~~~ Shadows of trees, which do not exist, extinguished by sudden, bright lights. Four musicians, in white, tux jackets, take the stage, like waiters to serve us some succulent moments, Beethoven. I wonder about their histories and any tales to […]
Illegal Ease
Illegal Ease ~~~~~ Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength, Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment ~~~~~ Everything I know is correct All that you know is incorrect Being blunt, not circumspect You may disagree on redirect ~~~~~ Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength, Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment ~~~~~ Please, leave a comment and […]
At Least Today
~~~~~ Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength, Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment ~~~~~ Stop now, then continue, amble along city streets. Stroll down brassy, brightly-lit boulevards, replete, preening, peering at our distorted reflections, why, sumptuous shop windows, blank-eyed passers-by. Captured in, by all the lenses of many-eyed CCTV. Daily life’s digital Camera Obscura in […]
Nihil Hic Est
Nihil Hic Est ~~~~~ Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength, Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment ~~~~~ Friends, Terrans and Countryfolks, lend me your ears. The investigator confirmed, there’s no hoax; let’s make that clear. He affirmed his team was not on a witch hunt, yet, several felons charged. The boss said for them to […]
Nature’s Fan
Nature’s Fan ~~~~~ Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength, Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment ~~~~~ Now, snow rests upon my weary head. Might I have used another path instead? It’s growing darker, nature’s fan is nigh, it’s bold palette, on distant shore I spy. Did I wait overlong my steps to retrace; the treasures […]
At Risk
At Risk ~~~~~ Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength, Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment ~~~~~ At the risk that I repeat, I am not feeling replete. By cars upon my street, I know I’m not an elite. Fearing I only baa, bleat, as my hours vanish fleet, till I’m but merely meat, and lying […]
The Long View
The Long View ~~~~~ Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength, Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment ~~~~~ Do you, we ever watch the world long enough to see it change? Or do we never? Not the ticking tock of human-constructed clock, nor the morning,. evening, all day news and views brags and boasts of pundit […]
And Then I Know
And Then I Know ~~~~~ Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength, Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment ~~~~~ I, one evening, going out to a recital, look away from my life, a brief moment. When my gaze returns, my perception changes, questions in my mind foment. Walking to the concert hall, after it’s rained, light […]
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